Bhowani Junction
The Discreet Charm of George Cukor
December 13, 2013 - January 7, 2014
Cukor adapts John Masters’ 1954 novel about an Anglo-Indian woman (Ava Gardner) torn between lovers and national allegiances in the midst of de-colonization.
“It was a different kind of experience for me,” Cukor said of Bhowani Junction, his adaption of John Masters’ 1954 novel about an Anglo-Indian woman torn between lovers and national allegiances in the midst of de-colonization. “It excited me—and then we had a bad preview.” The film was bluntly re-cut, Ava Gardner’s volatile heroine tamed, and the film’s central political conflict muffled—but what remains is still one of Cukor’s most daring and personal films: an acute portrait of a nation in turmoil, and a pointed statement on Britain’s legacy of oppression.
Title: BHOWANI JUNCTION ¥ Pers: GARDNER, AVA ¥ Year: 1956 ¥ Dir: CUKOR, GEORGE ¥ Ref: BHO001AA ¥ Credit: [ MGM / THE KOBAL COLLECTION ]
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